Business students are taught to regard E mails in the same manner as ordinary mail; to be careful in what you say because one day it will be held against you. Scientists are not, they use E mails as ordinary conversation.

I guess that will now change.

After trawling through more than ten years of E mails they found very little. Still using cherry picking and taking things right out of context as they always do, they made things sound bad for a few minutes.

Man caused global warming challenges their whole philosophy, expect them to get more desperate.

After trawling through more than ten years of E mails they found very little. Still using cherry picking and taking things right out of context as they always do, they made things sound bad for a few minutes.

Much has been written about how inappropriate it was for scientists to be withholding data, but consider this: McIntyre was one of the people from whom they were trying to withhold. Presumably they feared that he would act irresponsibly, cutting, pasting and generally misrepresenting their findings to undermine faith in their conclusions.

A thousand emails! And we’ve never met. I just know for a fact that our paper wouldn’t have gone anywhere if the both of us had had to constantly look over our shoulders while writing these mails. Can you say ‘chilling effects’?

As ClimateSight is a Canadian blog, videos from TheDailyShow.com (and ColbertNation.com) are unavailable. For us Canucks, we’ve got the option of digging through the grotesquely-designed TheComedyNetwork.ca site, or cheating a bit using headers.

If you’re running Firefox, install this add-on. Once it’s installed, go Tools | Modify Headers, selecting “Add” from the drop-down. Enter “X-Forwarded-For” in the first box, “12.13.14.15″ in the second, and leave the third box blank. Save, then go into the configuration and check “Always on.” This will allow videos from those sites and a handful of others to ignore region-specific blocking – it’s not universal (for instance, I haven’t figured out how to bypass restrictions on PBS.org, which has several documentaries I’ve been trying to see available online but restricted to US viewers) but it will work for Viacom sites.

(I haven’t yet found a Chrome add-on for the same effect, sorry. And if you’re using Internet Explorer, get another browser.)

About

Kaitlin Naughten is a PhD student in climate science at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. She became interested in climate science as a teenager on the Canadian Prairies, and increasingly began to notice the discrepancies between scientific and public knowledge on climate change. She started writing this blog at age sixteen to help address this gap in public understanding, and it slowly evolved into a record of her research as a young climate scientist. Read more

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